Best Thing I’ve Read Today

Dan Rather says if he had the opportunity to sit down with Donald Trump and Mike Pence (as Lesley Stahl did last night on “60 Minutes”), one of the questions he would ask is, “Do you believe in evolution?” It is long past time that we inject science into the national debate. Perhaps one of […]

Political Hypocrites

If Donald Trump picks Newt Gingrich as his running mate later this week, I bet it won’t be even a full day before Hillary Clinton’s campaign releases a commercial showing all the times Gingrich said Trump would make a horrible president. You can also expect over the next few months for her campaign to run […]

A Very Bad Week

After this week, maybe we should lower the flag to three feet off the ground. When we get our shit together we can raise it to half-mast.— Lewis Black (@TheLewisBlack) July 8, 2016 I spent much of my radio week discussing the shooting of civilians and cops in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Texas — as well […]

Lying Is A Prerequisite

I can’t help but laugh when I hear Republicans screaming that Hillary Clinton lied about this or that regarding her emails. First of all, with Donald Trump as your candidate, you can’t take the high road about anyone’s lying — the man is putting up pants-on-fire numbers that may never be eclipsed. Second of all, […]

Five Things

With 100% of the precincts counted, the total number of people whose minds were changed about Hillary Clinton today comes out to exactly zero. House Republicans, of course, are furious she won’t be indicted, and are calling for an independent prosecutor to look into her e-mails. I would suggest calling Kenneth Starr, who has plenty […]

Rana Foroohar, "Makers and Takers"

Rana Foroohar, "Makers and Takers"

Here’s my conversation with Rana Foroohar, economic columnist and assistant managing editor for Time magazine, about her book, “Makers and Takers: The Rise Of Finance And The Fall Of American Business.” Among the questions I asked her: What is the “financialization of banking”? Are the big banks still too big to fail? What happened to […]